The literature of the Romantic era is steeped in the politics of revolution and reaction. This Companion looks at first and second generation poets such as Wordsworth, Blake, Byron and Shelley and explores their engagement with the turbulent history of their times. Other genres such as drama, fiction and travel writing are also discussed, with close attention paid to texts by Walpole, Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. Combining thematic analysis with modern critical perspectives, the volume also includes key contextual sections focusing on ?Imagination, Truth and Reason?, ?Heroes and Anti-heroes? and ?Faith, Myth and Doubt?. …mehr
The literature of the Romantic era is steeped in the politics of revolution and reaction. This Companion looks at first and second generation poets such as Wordsworth, Blake, Byron and Shelley and explores their engagement with the turbulent history of their times. Other genres such as drama, fiction and travel writing are also discussed, with close attention paid to texts by Walpole, Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. Combining thematic analysis with modern critical perspectives, the volume also includes key contextual sections focusing on ?Imagination, Truth and Reason?, ?Heroes and Anti-heroes? and ?Faith, Myth and Doubt?.
Dr John Gilroy (BA Newcastle: MPhil Warwick: Cert.Ed. Leeds) lectures part-time in the English Department of Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He is a lecturer for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and is a course director for its international and residential programmes. His most recent publications are contributions on Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats for The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (Steven R. Serafin & Valerie Grosvenor-Myer eds, Continuum, 2003), Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems, 2007 (www.Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk) and Philip Larkin: Selected Poems, 2009 (www.Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk). He is interested in all aspects of British Romanticism and is currently researching material on the significance of early aeronautics in the Romantic period.
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Part One: Introduction Part Two: A Cultural Overview Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts Writing in Revolution: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and William Wordsworth Extended commentary: Wordsworth, The Prelude (1850), Book IX, lines 436- 504 Revolution, Reaction and the Natural World: Wordsworth and Coleridge, John Clare and William Blake Extended commentary: Blake, 'The Tyger' from Songs of Experience (1793) Dramatic writing: Horace Walpole, Robert Southey and Lord Byron Extended commentary: Walpole, The Mysterious Mother (1768), V.i.312-420 Romantic Verse Narratives: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Extended commentary: 'The Rime of the Ancyent Mariner' (1817), lines 1-40 and 610-17 Romantic Fiction: James Hogg, Thomas Love Peacock and Jane Austen Extended commentary: Austen, Persuasion (1816), Chapter 23 Romantic Travel Writing: William Beckford, Lord Byron and Mary Wollstonecraft Extended commentary: Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), Letters 16 and 17 Part Four: Critical Theories and Debates Imagination, Truth and Reason Faith, Myth and Doubt Heroes and Ant-Heroes Forms of Ruin Part Five: References and resources Timeline Further reading Index
Part One: Introduction Part Two: A Cultural Overview Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts Writing in Revolution: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and William Wordsworth Extended commentary: Wordsworth, The Prelude (1850), Book IX, lines 436- 504 Revolution, Reaction and the Natural World: Wordsworth and Coleridge, John Clare and William Blake Extended commentary: Blake, 'The Tyger' from Songs of Experience (1793) Dramatic writing: Horace Walpole, Robert Southey and Lord Byron Extended commentary: Walpole, The Mysterious Mother (1768), V.i.312-420 Romantic Verse Narratives: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Extended commentary: 'The Rime of the Ancyent Mariner' (1817), lines 1-40 and 610-17 Romantic Fiction: James Hogg, Thomas Love Peacock and Jane Austen Extended commentary: Austen, Persuasion (1816), Chapter 23 Romantic Travel Writing: William Beckford, Lord Byron and Mary Wollstonecraft Extended commentary: Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), Letters 16 and 17 Part Four: Critical Theories and Debates Imagination, Truth and Reason Faith, Myth and Doubt Heroes and Ant-Heroes Forms of Ruin Part Five: References and resources Timeline Further reading Index
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